Posted on 09/26/2018 4:27:35 PM PDT by Candor7
An upstate New York man has mastered the art of raccoon calling. Video posted online on September 20 by Newsflare shows the man standing on the side of a road in Brasher State Forest in St. Lawrence County playing a beautiful tune on his Native American flute. The man's skills aren't just music to viewers' ears. The raccoons seem to like it too and come out of hiding in the woods to surround the man. According to the filmmaker, at least 20 raccoons enjoyed the afternoon show before slinking back into the woods. The man, who is being dubbed the 'Pied Piper of Raccoons', lives at the reservation and usually plays his flute for the birds and other animals.
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Native American power flute. If you like racoons, just take a boom box into the forest!
(I know that horses love the Scottish Highland Bagpipes and come galloping.)
Looks like strategically placed treats.
They are obviously eating something. Has he been putting out the treats and playing a tune and conditioning them to associate the tunes with the treats?
Flute as dinner bell. Pavlovian response.
Ping to native American raccoon pied piper.( vidoe at article link)
They sort of formed a semi-circle and seemed to be picking up food.
I think they associate the flute playing with being fed.
“Nearly” Animals.
MS-13?
I knew a priest in college. He was very old. Each day he would go out and sit on a bench in the middle of campus. As he walked very slowly to his bench, he would whistle. As he did, the squirrels would come from everywhere. He would sit down, put down his cane and pull out a bag of peanuts from his coat pocket. As each squirrel came up his cane, he would literally hand the squirrel a peanut. The squirrel would take it from the old priest’s hand and run away with the peanut.
So you tell me. Did the squirrels come to hear the old priest whistle?
He spread corn out on the ground. They hear that flute and go eat. It is the dinner bell.
Did the squirrels come to hear the old priest whistle?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Of course not. Squirrels are not musical like raccoons!
“Rocky Raccoon”
Now somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota
There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon
And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young Rocky in the eye Rocky didn’t like that
He said “I’m gonna get that boy”
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon
Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon’s Bible
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy
Now she and her man, who called himself Dan
Were in the next room at the hoedown
Rocky burst in, and grinning a grin
He said, “Danny boy, this is a showdown”
But Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot
And Rocky collapsed in the corner, ah
D’da d’da d’da da da da
D’da d’da d’da da da da
D’da d’da d’da da d’da d’da d’da d’da
Do do do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
Do do do do do do
Now, the doctor came in, stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said, “Rocky, you met your match”
And Rocky said, “Doc, it’s only a scratch
And I’ll be better, I’ll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able”
And now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon’s Bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Rocky’s revival, ah
Oh yeah, yeah
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
Do do do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do, come on, Rocky boy
D’do d’do d’do do do do, come on, Rocky boy
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
The story of Rocky there
If he spread corn, he should have put down a few pans of corn liquor....I wonder how drunken raccoons behave.
I was going to say I can do that with a handful of cat food, which they can smell from far away and find totally irresistible, while cats just think “meh.”
If you throw cat food into a camp fire the darn coons would try to fish it out.
BS he has trained them with probably cat food, they come a runnin’. I do remember a clip I saw maybe 20 years ago. Chinese man who could go out and call to the birds with his arms outstretched and they would come by many dozens and land on him. No food involved.
I fed my cats one eve and went back out. Back yard was FULL of coons and cubs....all growling. Couldn’t shut the door soon enough!
I also noticed how fat those raccoons were. Not natural.
Chinese man who could go out and call to the birds with his arms outstretched and they would come by many dozens and land on him. No food involved.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yep. I know a Tibetan man who could do that: Gyalwang Karmapa.
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